E-scapeandscrap ~ Designs for Digital Scrapbooks

Nifty Show Me How-to #1 April 11, 2007

Easter is over but not the memories. Turn your photos into coloring pages the kiddos can enjoy after the holidays. I used a photo of Erica’s son counting his egg treasures.

{Photoshop Instructions}

Crop the photo to simplify the picture. Duplicate this layer and name it Layer 1. NowDesaturateLayer 1 so you have a black and white photo. You’ll find the Desaturate command in the drop down menu under Image>Adjustments.

You will need to duplicate Layer 1 for the next step and name it Layer 2. With Layer 2 selected, invert the photo so it looks like a negative. You’ll find the invert command in the drop down menu under Image>Adjustments.

Next use the Filters menu and choose one of the blur choices. You can use the Gaussian, Radial or Motion blurs for this step. Move the slider slowly to the right until you have a coloring book effect for your photo. {Thanks for Jennifer Apple for inspiration}

{Digital Image Pro Instructions}

Crop your photo to contain the details you want to save. Choose Filters > Arts and Crafts > Photocopy and play with the advanced options until you get the look of a coloring page.

{Paint Shop Pro Instructions}

Using Paint Shop Pro Photo XI and the black and white pencil script, you can easily turn a photo into a coloring book page. Either turn on the script toolbar by selecting View > Toolbars > Script then select black and white pencil from the drop down and click the GO (arrow) button.

Or, find the script by selecting File > Script > Run. which drops you into an explorer window. Select black and white pencil PspScript from the file list and click open. Click OK through the screens, leveraging the default values. (You can always undo and see what happens as you change some of the default values too.) {Thanks to e-scape’s CT Glenda for instructions.}

Print and supply your budding artists with personal pages of themselves and family for happy coloring!

Thank you so much for sharing the tut with us. It is a great idea that I will be doing as soon as I get a chance. I also wanted to that you for the beautiful alpha. I really like your blog very informative and fun to visit.

Thanks so much for the Spring Romance Freebies. The stamps were just what I was looking for to do a layout. I posted it in my digital scrapbook group and I have had many positive comments. I would love to share it with you if you would like. I used the entire alphabet and some papers from the kit. Feel free to email me if you would like to see it. Thanks Again.

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